Education
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Found in 386 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Fortescue: The Papers of Hugh Fortescue
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3243/FOR
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert...
Dates:
1856 - 1901
Found in:
Homerton College Archive
File
Fragments of books, 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 1/4
Scope and Contents
Comprising draft synopses of books titled "Cycles of Life in London", 1970, and "Education - a Semi-Fantasy Book", undated, and an introductory chapter to a book titled "Isolation of the Immediate Family", undated.
Dates:
1970
File
General articles, 1905-01 - 1908-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/4
Scope and Contents
Cuttings, prints, proofs and manuscripts of articles written by LSA, mainly for the Times and National Review, on subjects including: mountaineering; north-western Canada; the Imperial Conference (1907); the East African empire; the Education Bill (1906); British trade figures; the military geography of the empire; reorganizing the Conservative Party; policy on tariff reform, defence, Ireland and social issues.
Dates:
1905-01 - 1908-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
General correspondence, 1979-10 - 1980-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 1/3/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly on education, with correspondents including: Tessa Blackstone, Professor of Educational Administration, University of London; Paul Foot, Daily Mirror; William Deedes, Editor of the Daily Telegraph; Frank Field, including a copy of his letter to the Guardian on Labour’s education policy; Frank Hooley; Norman Lamont (2); Kenneth Lewis; Robert Worcester, Director of Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) asking NK to take part in a survey of MPs; Fritz Spiegl;...
Dates:
1979-10 - 1980-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
General correspondence, 1981-01 - 1983-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 1/3/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly on education, with correspondents including: Alan Protheroe, Assistant Director General of the BBC; Kingman Brewster, American Ambassador to Britain; Robin Cook; Michael Molloy, Editor of the Daily Mirror on interpreting a speech by NK as an attack on Tony Benn; Sir Philip Moore, Private Secretary to the Queen, on NK’s suggestions for the university education of Prince Edward [later the Earl of Wessex]; Alexander Lyon; Jeffrey Thomas.
Also includes: copies of...
Dates:
1981-01 - 1983-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
"Harrow", 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/11
Scope and Contents
Portrait photograph of WSC in school uniform.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
Item
"Harrow", 1889
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/12
Scope and Contents
Portrait photograph of WSC as a schoolboy wearing a top hat and tailcoat and carrying a walking cane.
Dates:
1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
Item
"Harrow: Bill taken by Mr Griffiths", 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/10
Scope and Contents
Photograph shows Harrow schoolboys wearing straw boaters filing past a school master wearing a gown and mortar board. Note that caption originally read "Roll call taken by" and has been corrected.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
File
Immigrant children in schools and in care, 1969-06 - 1974-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 8/2/3
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on statistics for immigrant schoolchildren. Correspondents include: Denis Grayson, Director of Education, Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] (10); Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State for Education and Science (5); John Wilkinson, MP for Bradford West [Yorkshire] (2); Louise Eickhoff, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham [Warwickshire] (3);
2nd Lord Belstead, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science [earlier John...
Dates:
1969-06 - 1974-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Some folios closed until 2057, as they contain sensitive personal information on a possibly living individual.
File
Irish College in Paris: Rules and Constitutions
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4023
Scope and Contents
'Rules and constitutions for the continuantion [sic] of spirituall exercises and conferences of the Irish Priests and Schollers dwelling wotether or separatly in the Citty and Suburbs of Paris'
Dates:
1675 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
John Desmond Bernal: Scientific and Personal Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8287
Scope and Contents
John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971) was born on 10 May 1901. He attended Cambridge University, 1919-1923, before working in the Davy Faraday Laboratory, London, 1923-1927. He was appointed Lecturer in Structural Crystallography at Cambridge in 1927, and Assistant Director of Research in Crystallography, Cambridge, 1934. He was made Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, in January 1938. During the War Bernal worked in the Ministry of Security, as a member of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1911-1977; 1795; 1883
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Section R (previously restricted) was opened to readers in 2021.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Labour Party relations with the Jewish Community and Israel, 1991-04 - 1992-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/192
Scope and Contents
Includes: text of speech by NK to the Board of Deputies of British Jews; European Parliamentary Labour Party papers on a European financial protocol with Israel; brief by Jack Straw [education spokesman] on Labour’s treatment of voluntary-aided schools and educational charities.
Dates:
1991-04 - 1992-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Leader’s Reception: Doncaster [Yorkshire], 1988-09-20
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/67
Scope and Contents
Questions answered by NK on subjects including: Black Sections and racism in the Labour Party; taking Labour voters for granted and the need for party discipline to win power; the concentration of resources on target seats; non-payment of the Poll Tax; a greater role for the membership in Party Conferences; education policy; the trades unions and the employment training scheme; the shooting of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar, counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland and Labour's policy on the...
Dates:
1988-09-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Access copies available.
File
Leader’s Steering Committee, minutes and copies of papers circulated, April 1975-March 1979, 1975-04 - 1979-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/245
Scope and Contents
Includes MT's handwritten annotations
Also includes correspondence with Christopher Patten (Director General, Conservative Research Department), 1975-78, including note for MT on "Supply days", 11 June 1975; Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft, May 1976; and Sir Keith Joseph MP, November 1976; letter from Sir Geoffrey Howe MP to Sir Keith Joseph MP, October 1976; papers relating to "Stepping Stones and Conservative Party strategy", December 1977-February 1978; and paper...
Dates:
1975-04 - 1979-03
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Lectures, 1954 - 1979
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 3/1/1
Scope and Contents
Comprising: "The Labour Party and the Middle Class Mind", given at the Fabian Society's Easter School, 1954; "Family and Kinship", given at the Annual Conference of the Family Welfare Association, 4 November 1955; "Studying Kinship in East London", given at Professor [Max] Gluckman's seminar in Manchester, 24 June 1957; a talk on "The Human Group" by Professor [George] Homans, given at the Family Seminar, September 1957; "The Responsibility of the Parent and the School", given at the Annual...
Dates:
1954 - 1979
File
Lectures, 1980 - 1985
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 3/1/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising: "Small Politics Is Not Always Beautiful", given at a seminar at Hasselby Castle, 22 August 1980; "Decentralising Education", given to the Green Alliance, 19 May 1982; "The SDP's Roots in History", given to the Manchester Tawney Society, 21 May 1982; "The Round of Time. A Sociologists's View", the Barnett Shine Foundation Lecture at Queen Mary College, London, 1983; "Democratic Socialism: what's left?", given at the Fabian Centennial Weekend, 8 January 1984; "Progressive Education...
Dates:
1980 - 1985
File
Lectures, 1990
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 3/1/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising: "Death and Modern Culture", given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 25 February 1990; "The Future of Education", Dartington Annual Lecture, 22 June 1990; "Buddhist Attitude to Death", a response to a talk given by Stephen Batchelor to the Buddhist Hospice Trust, 15 July 1990; "Liberating the Old and the Young: the case for an ageless society", Presidential Address to the British Association, 23 August 1990; and "The Future of the Family", ESRC Annual Lecture, 6...
Dates:
1990
File
Lectures, 1991 - 1996
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 3/1/4
Scope and Contents
Comprising: a talk given at the Natural Death Centre, 4 December 1991; "Change, British Society and the Family", given at a seminar of the National Education Commission, 4 April 1992; "The Relevance of Community", given at the Funerals Conference, Oxford, 18 April 1993; "An International Perspective", given at the Conference on Materials Production, Pietermaritzburg, 9 September 1993; "The Prospects for Open Learning", given to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Open University, 15 April...
Dates:
1991 - 1996
Series
Letters from Sarah Churchill to Eleanor Sotheron-Estcourt, 1931-10 - 1983-04
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 108
Scope and Contents
Sarah Churchill and Eleanor Sotheron-Estcourt became friends at the Ozanne sisters' finishing school at 4 Avenue Octave Gréard, Paris.
With letters from other authors, including Alice Ozanne; poems; and a letter from Mary Soames, enclosing a 1983 Tatler article about Eleanor and Sarah's friendship.
Dates:
1931-10 - 1983-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
File
Literary: Articles by WSC for the Daily Mail., 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/300
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs and cuttings of various articles: "Run down by a motor" on WSC's accident in New York [United States]; "The dole" on unemployment and Labour Party policy; "Nothing but humbug" on political affairs and the likelihood of a General Election; "India insistent" a review of a book by Sir Harcourt Butler on British policy and problems in India; "The two issues now before the nation" on the position of the British empire, fiscal policy and a meeting between Ramsay MacDonald and David...
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 5., 21 Jun 1942 - 12 Jul 1942
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/706
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "H G Wells" on WSC's views of the author (also on the same page is an article by Wells on educational plans); "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza" [WSC's version of Cervantes' story]; "Montagu Norman - man of mystery" on WSC's views of the Governor of the Bank of England; "Miner's grandson became Lord Chancellor" on the career and WSC's memories of F E Smith [1st Lord Birkenhead].
Dates:
21 Jun 1942 - 12 Jul 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 8., 17 Nov 1940 - 29 Dec 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/672
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Neville Chamberlain" on British Prime Ministers since [William] Gladstone, Chamberlain's career, including during World War I, and as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and WSC's views on his personality; "The Grimmest Task in the Government" on WSC's experiences as Home Secretary, capital punishment, and prison reform; "Maiden and Other Speeches" on speeches by F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead], Timothy Healy, WSC, Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord...
Dates:
17 Nov 1940 - 29 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Meetings, 1989-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/80
Scope and Contents
Briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with George Vassilou, President of Cyprus on attempts to reach a settlement in Cyprus. Also includes a briefing for and notes of a meeting with representatives of the Educational Institute of Scotland on the Self Governing Schools etc (Scotland) Bill.
Dates:
1989-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Minister of Education, 1951-11-08 - 1954-11-25
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HSBR 1/5
Scope and Contents
12 letters to Florence Horsbrugh and various speech notes on education.
Dates:
1951-11-08 - 1954-11-25
File
Minutes of meetings of the Committee on Grant to Women's Colleges, 1924 - 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.VII.16
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.
Dates:
1924 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Management Group:
The minutes of some Committees are closed to scholars for periods of years; see each catalogue entry for further detail.